The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser from Truro, Cornwall, England • 4

CORNWALL ROYAL GAZETTE, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1846 cal literature is the astonishment of tho world, and we Bast Cornwall Agricultural Report. The past month has been, generally speaking, more stormy and wet than usual, and the north coast of Cornwall has been literally strewed with the wrecks of valuable vessel and their cargoes. The storms have not, however, done much injury on the land, except by the overflowing of some rivers and rivulets but it has told a sad tale to the flowers, and the beauty of oar scenery is gone. The falling leaf also reminds us that we can no longer enjoy the delights of summer, bnt that we should prepare ourselves for tlie approaching winter season.

Wheat sowing is progressing rapidly, and on a number of farms is completed. The breadth of land sown and to sow of this valuable grain is above an average, most farmers being desirous of securing the greatest quantity of land available for this crop. This is the season when there used to be a sort of bee-hive movement, in securing the potato crop, and collecting the apples for making cider. But the year 1846 must ever stand perspicuous in the annnals of British Agriculture for the almost total failure of both The banking establishments in Sheffield have agreed to allow their clerks a half-holiday every Thursday fn Leeds, proceedings have been commenced against several ga inspectors, in consequence of their being shareholders and inspectors in the same company, and for which they incur a penalty of 50L Mr. Brabam, it is said, about to retire from professional life, though previous to doing so he will make a tour of the provinces.

Tha death of bis daughter's husband, the Earl of Waldegrave, without issue, render It no longer necestary that he should pursue his labours. The oracle of Dissent, the Nonconformist newspaper, shows its estimate of the registration of conventicles for the purposes of marriage, by placing the announcements under the head of trade commerce' A Dublin paper save that the Ballast Board has decided upon placing a splendid bell, that will cost about 400. on the Bailly Rock on the mountain promontory el Howth, to be rung a a warning te vessels approaching the rocky cliffs in heavy fogs. Mr. Brunei, deputed by the South Wales Company, has been visiting Swansea, with a view to the selection of the best locality for decks.

A party of five Caffre arrived in Liverpool oa Monday last, from the Cape of Good Hope. POETS' CORNER. OLD Kim I EON. I am the monarch of the mines, I keep the treasure key Without me not an ore that shines The liftht of day would see I fashion each unto its end I i-irr It form and mould To me, then, ye, perforce, must bend, For all the power you hold. I rare the builder's tool to man, The hammer, axe, and plane The major running else might plan Hit maater-work In vain Tliroact) me the ever terming earth For harvest men prepare What to the hnshandman were worth The plough without the ahare The lever, rrank, and crane arc mine, The loom of riant might The wondrous engine and the line, O'er which it sneeils like light.

Mine i the rod that from the tower Averts the levin brand. I. ereri the lightning's power, Defy with this right hand. Rut that a herein I vaunt me most, If for my power to slay Tit I who orm each rival host To meet in dreadful fray Tie I who drench tlir battle plain. And fpread the vulture's board Yr, wisely, for the club of Cain I enve mankind the sword.

Tis I who breath the solph'rous brratli, Tlml kllieth from afar Mine is the crushing globe of death, Tlie thunderbolt of war Tttr armaments thai sweep the flood Of Ocean's mighty sea, Mijlit ride at ease upon the blood That bath been spilt by roe. Ity nic men live by me ther die O'er Arts and Arm they rway WI'O dure my empire to deny My title to gainsay 1 Wherefore to Iron ye tlie due Of homage must accord. And own yourselves my lieges true, And me your king and lord. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, Monday, November 2. Town-made flour was put down 4s.

per sack, ands'dp-marks declined in consequence about 2s. per sack, and foreign Is. per brl. Although the importation of foreign barley is large, not much of malting quality appears, and a great quantity having gone direct to the distiller, the show is not extensive. Choice English qualities were 2s.

per qr. cheaper, and other sorts declined fully 3s. per qr. Malt being scarce, was quite as dear. The large quantity of foreign oats on sale checked business the trade was mostly confined to the consumers who took small quantities for immediate use at 6d.

to per qr. under the rates of last week. Prime beans were nearly as dear and in fair request, but soft samples were rather cheaper. Foreign peas were offering 2s. per qr.

lower, but choice home-grown boilers realised former rates. Linseed continues scarce, and a further ad ranee of Is. per qr. has been established on all the best qualities. Nothing worthy of remark has occurred in rapeseed.

Tares were dull and rather lower. Canary seed was steady in value and in demand. Mustard ieed fully supported prices. CURRENT PRICES OP GRAIN, per Imperial Quarter. a.

a. a. a. t. Wheat, Essex, Kent, as Suffolk red, now.5.) a 84 Old sa a 03 Ditto ditto ditto whit dittoes a 73 Old.

82 a lis Norfolk and Lincoln red ditto 83 Old. 3ii Xortliumb. St Scotch whit ditto 6 a 80 Old. 62 a St Foreign, Free 80 a 70 In Bond 3t 03 Barter, Grinding. 34 a 30, Dtatilllng 37 a 41 Malting 42 a SO Halt, Brown, 34 a 90, Pal 88 a 73 Ware 74 a 73 Beans, Ticks, 49 a 48, Harrow 48 a 33 Pigeon 30 a 34 Peas, Grey, 43 a 48, Maple 43 a 48 White 34 a 60 Oats, English, Feed 39 a SO Poland 3'i a 34 Scotch, Angus 31 a S3 Potato 34 a 30 Irish, Whit 24 a 39 Black 23 a Rye, Old, 40 a 43, New 43 a 43 Brank SO a 34 FLOUA, per Sack of 280 lbs.

Town made 33 a 56 I Norfolk and Stockton .48 a 4u Bseex and Kent 88 a 3S Irish 49 a 3 Average Prices of Corn and Grain, with the duty Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Bean Peas. September 19 51 3 38 1 38 7 41 8 40 .1 38 53136 10 337 43 7430 October 3 34 0 38 9 24 3 43 4 45 4 10 50 10 372347437407 17 39 10 388338485 47 3 34 (10 10 40-2 20 8 45 SJ 48 11) aggregate Average 560 377 348 433 437 Outlet.

40 20 18 90 20 Laat week's Averages 54 2 36 0 24 3 49 11 4311 Duties 4 0 2 0 1 6 1 9 0 20 fore embarking for Dublin one soldier arrived late, and he was intoxicated this drew a reprimand from an officer, whereupon the roan aimed a blow at the wilh his masket the gentleman st ppe.1 back and avoided it thf soldier then fixed his bavonet, and attempted to slab the officer but he was seized, and taken with tho rogiment to Dublin, where he will be tried. Preaching to thb Deaf ad Dumb. There has been for some time past a chapel in Red Lion-square, in whieh public worship is performed twice every Sunday for the sole benefit of the deaf and dumb. The service is that of the Church of England singing and the music of the organ bein, as a matter of course, omitted. The experiment of eomrounlcatin? to those unfortunate persons deprived of hearing and the po vcr of speech a knowledge of the great truths of revelation by mean of those sins" which constitute a language in themselves, have been eminently successful.

In the morning, the chapel in Red Lion-square i attended by from 20 to 30 deaf and dumb persons. Last Sunday evening, the audience consisted of 17. After the usual prayers had been gone through, the teacher commented at considerable length, by means of gestures, on the 11th chapter of the 1st of Samuel, his audience seeming to comprehend every idea which he night to convey. The services lasted for upwards nf an hour and a quarter. An Ant Plague at the West-End." Some of the houses in Pall-mall," says the Builder," ans infested by ants, si nilar in form to those wo see In the country, but much smaller and of a reddish colour they swarm in such "multitudes as to become an intolerable nuisance, generally frequenting the warmest parts of the house, and finding their way into sugar-canisters, bread-cupboards, and covering all that is succulent or edible.

Tlie unwelcome intruders do not confine themselves to inanimate substances, but, introducing themselves into wearing apparel, crawl about the body, theicby producing a ti filiation far from agreeable. Beetles, that abounded previously to their appearance, have nearly disappeared." Miraculous Escape. The wloop Mary Adelaide was capsized near Sqnam beach, during the gale of last week, and all hands perished except a young lady, the sloop having drifted bottom up. The wreckers having boarded her, they a noise which appeared to be that of a human voice, coming from the cabin. They instantly cut a hole in the bottom, and there found Miss Larason, a niece of the captain, who bad been standing in water up to her neck from the time the vessel capsized uatil she drifted to the shore, when the tide having fallen a little, she was enabled to rest herself by sitting down, although the water was then up to her waist New York Paper.

Woman's Rbvbngb. A young English widow of the name of Wilson was arrested on Saturday, for an attempt to take the life of Thomas Ratten, who is employed in an ogan factory in Centre-street. For two years he had been attentive to her, but about Christmas last he suddenly became cool, and was married to a young lady. Since that Mrs. W.

ha become nearly frantic, and on Saturday, repairing to his place of work, drew a pistol and pointed it at his head, when he knocked her down and had her taken to the Tombs. New York Courier. Tobacco fob toe Navy. The Lord of the Admiralty have given orders for the Purser of the various ships in harbour to issue a pound of tobacco per month to each man, as formerly used to be the case. This regulation is a wise one, and calculated to give much satisfaction to seamen, who could ill afford to pay four shillings per month for this luxury, out of 1 that being an able seaman's pay per month.

Great Circle Sailing. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty liave signified their intention of publishing forthwith, for the benefit of all mariners, the manuscript of certain tables, presented to them by Mr. J. T. Towson of Devonport, and their Lordships have expressed their thanks and have acknowledged theliberality with which he has unconditionally presented them.

The tables afford very expeditious means of carrying on great circle sailing by which the length of the voyage I shortened, as compared with the ordinary method of navigating ships on the ocean. This sailing had gone into disuse, on account of the labor connected with its adoption but we understand that by the earns invented by Mr. Towson, problems can be solved in half-a-minute, which previously occupied hours, and this without requiring that the mariner should be acquainted with spheres. The facilities thus afforded, will enable the mariner to connect the principle of great circle sailing with windward sailing. The immense labour which this application of the angles on the surface of a globe would entail, had rendered the application impracticable and we understand that tlie value of the tables in this respect far exceeds that connected with ordinary sailing that even circumstances may arise, in which a voyage their aid, be performed in two-thirds of the time otherwise necessary.

There is also another application of the same prineiples.whieh is altogether original. Researches in Africa. Mr. Richardson (the traveller of the Great Desert) has just passed through Paris, on his way to England, where he purposes to publish his researches in the parts of Africa he had visited. Mr.

Richardson ha not only made a journey of 3000 miles through the heart of the Sahara during this tour, but has visited all the count rics of the northern coast, including Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli and there are, probably, few persons so well acquainted with all the details of these countries now become exceedingly important by the progress of French conquest in that part of the world. We understand that when Mr. Richardson has published his journey, he will return, with a view of making another attempt to penetrate Soudan by the new route, a part of which he has already travelled. Tlie French scientific commission of Algeria, backed by all the means and influence of the Governor, and consisting of some dozen individuals, officers of various grades and high acquirements, have employed nearly two years in collecting a mass of various imperfect details on the Great Desert, and the countries of Northern Africa, whilst the English traveller, by his personal, sole, and unaided enterprise, has obtained, it is said, very important and correct information on these subjects in less than two years a proof of what individual enterprise may sometimes accomplish under the most cheerless and discouraging circumstances. Mr.

Richardson's knowledge of Arabic was of great use to him, for without it his life would several times have been in danger. Mr. Richardson's object was to collect precise information relative to the trade in slaves, St he has thoroughly accomplished it. It is from a country called Zouaicb-el-Zhat that Mr. Richardson has brought the most important information on this subject Qalignani Encouragement of Crimb.

It is stated that the eonvicts of Woolwich have a weekly allowance of meal, 31b. soft bread, 71b. biscuit, lib. 12oz. beef, cheese, I2oz.

salt, 4oz. and a pint and a half of small beer on cheese days. Annual clothing two Jackets, 3 pair of trowsers, 4 pair of stockings, 3 pair of shoes, 3 hats, 2 handkerchiefs, 3 shirts, one waistcoat, one blanket, and one Guernsey frock. How many poor but honest laborers have not one-half these necessaries. Verily, honesty is its own reward hill with perfect safety, and at an equal rate of speed.

The resisting power is placed without the line of road-Literary Gazette. Prkvention of Concussion. Mr. Hyam Isaacs, of Exeter, has invented a railway carriage, which is intended to be placed next the tender, and is adapted by elastic cushions, springs, to resist any collision. One of these safety carriages is also to be placed behind the train to prevent a concussion in that direction.

In conjunction with Mr. Isaacs, Mr. J. C. Wilcocks, of Exeter, intends to apply for a patent for the invention.

Subterranean Electric Telegraph through the Mbtrop3LIS. During the last few weeks, considerable interest has been excited in the scientific world and the several railway companies whose lines run into the metropolis, by the announcement that the Electric Company intend forthwith to establish a central telegraph station, at the company's depot in the Strand, by means of which communication will be obtained from one point to all parts of the country. The extension of the telegraph on the South Western Railway will be first commenced. In the course of three months it is anticipated that it will be completed. The 50th clause of the company's act sets forth, That at all times, and whenever, in the opinion of one of her Majesty's principal secretaries of state for the time being, such an emergency as afornsaid shall have arisen, it shall be lawful for such Secretary of State, by warrant under his hand to cause possession to be takeo of all the telegraphs and apparatus at tho various stations of tho company, for one week from the date of such warrant, for the purpose of preventing any communication being made, or signal given, and also by further successive warrants to cause possession of them to be retained from week to week, so long as their detention might be deemed expedient, the company receiving reasonable remuneration for such loss." Usb op thb Electric Telegraph.

The other day a ph asant which had perched upon the wires of the Lincoln and Nottingham railway was killed by electricity. The railway people were conveying a message along the line, which was doubtless the cause of its death. The telegraph was employed the other day to stop a clandestine marriage. A young lady and gentleman decamped together by rail from Nottingham to have the indissoluble knot tied at Lincoln but about an hour after the loving pair had set off, the lady's mamma, finding her daughter absent, went to the railway station, and ascertained that she had left for Lincoln with her lover. The telegraph was instantly set lo work, and when the lady and gentleman arrived at Lincoln, a policeman was in attendance to receive them, and the pair were forthwith taken out of their carriage, placed in a return train, and sent back to the mamma, who had unfortunately found her daughter was out" Lincoln Mercury.

Thb Mbnai Tubular Bridge. Strength of Tubes. Mr. W. Fairbairn and Mr.

E.Hodgkinson have both been engaged In extensive and independent sets of experiments, to ascertain the best form to give to the beams to be employed in the construction of the tubular bridge by which the Chester and Holyhead Railway is to be carried over the Menal Straits. Mr. Fairbairn's experiments may be said to hae only established this general fact that hollow beams of wrought iron are three times stronger than solid beams of the same form. Mr. Hodgktnsen's experiments had for their special object to ascertain what sort of hollow beam i the best oblong, or square, or cylindrical.

From the results, it is shown that the cylindrical are (as might have been, and was, in fact, anticipated by Mr. Hodgkinson) the strongest of all, and the square next in degree. The rectangular were all of plates one-sixteenth of an inch and all simple rectangles, except the last but one, which had a partition in it, making it into two divisions. On the 14th the railway company contracted for the construction of the first portion of this bridge, which is to be called the Britannia. It is 460ft.

span. The greatest span of any rigid bridge hitherto executed is 240 feet Opening op thb First Railway in thb Kingdom of Poland. The line from Warsaw Petrikau has been opened for public traffic, in the presence of the Viceroy, Prince Paske witch. The distance, 19 Polish miles (100 been performed in four hours, comprising some delays occasioned by the festival. This line will be of great importance to Poland, as it will bring Warsaw within a few miles of the Prussian Silesia, which is already traversed by the Breslau-Berlin line, which, again, passes close to the Austrian frontier.

Swedish Railway. The first railway to be constructed in Sweden, is to run from the mine of Gelli-wara, in Lapland, to the port of Tonnefors, and will be 32 French leagues in length. These mines are the richest in Sweden, but the produce is of comparatively little value, from the difficulty which exist in carrying it to the sea. It is an English company which has undertaken the line in question, and the works are to commence in the course of next Spring. MISCBLLANIOTJg.

Death-bed Supbbstition in Dbyonshirb. There is a curious superstition in Devonshire, that the departure of life is delayed while any lock is closed in the dwelling or any bolt shot It is a practice, therefore, when a dying person is at the last extremity, to open every door in the house. This notion extends even to the supposition that a beam over the head of the dying man impedes the departure of the spirit. A clerical friend, who was most indefatigable in the discharge of his duties amonigst the poor of his parish, related to me that in a village near Colluinpton, he witnessed the death of a person, when tlie last moments seemed delayed by some unseen cause and the relatives, in consequence, moved the bed, observing that over the place there was a beam concealed in the floor above. In consequence of such removal, as they said the sick man "went off like a Iamb." The superstition that the departure of life is delayed while any door is locked or bolt drawn, Is obviously connected with the belief, which formerly prevailed, that the soul flew out of the mouth of the dying in likeness of a bird.

Whatever may be the origin of the belief that a beam over the head of a dying man impedes his departure, it Is certain that it exists in the Netherlands where, we learn from Wolf, it is currently believed that, if the bed of a dying man stands so that with a beam it forms a cross, he will have a long and weary death. Correspondent of Athenaeum. Fairy Legends in Cornwall. The Pixy Rider. On the banks of the river Fowey, near Lostwithiel, there yet lives a farmer who, possessing intelligence beyond his neighbours, was regarded, thirty years since, as the Solon of his pariah, St.

Veep. With this person I was spending some holidays and ha kindly placed at my a very beautiful little pony, en which, day after day, I explored the cultivated glades and wild moon of the neighbourhood. The pony was regularly, after having been fed, turned out into a fertile meadow at night One morning, this little creature was discovered to be ill. It revived, however and was thought towards evening to be again quite well. Morning after morning pony" was prostrate suffering from some intermittent disease.

The village farrier was called in who at once declared that the pony was pixy ridden," and it was resolved to watch the field at night How the watch wa kept I have forgotten but well do I remember two men informing my credulous host, who believed all they said terrors. He urges therefore, that wh'le sufficiency is provided for them, there should be no wasteful excess of food, and that a place of refuge should be provided where they may be received on their discharge from prison. At the close of his Report, he urges at considerable length an objection against imprisonment for short periods. His remarks upon this point must be under stood to apply only to jails, which, like Reading, are marked by a discipline judiciously directed to the reformation and instruction of the offender. In such, he very reasonably urges, that to make the correction effectual, it must not be transient.

As a i act therefore of mercy, he desires to express a hope that the day may ere long arrive when the shortest imprisonment shall afford time for improvement when moral delinquency shall be visited with a penalty which may allow time for the defect to be supplied when crime shall be looked upon as indicative of a character requiring correction, and when the sentence shall in every case be such as to make it possible for the professed object to be attained when, in short, every committal to the house of correction shall be really for the expressed purpose of correcting." Kifto's College. Th encourage the study of sacrei literature, the Council of King's College, London, has Inst ruted a Divinity Scholarship of 30. The subjects for this year are The prophetical and typical part of the Pentateuch the first ten Psalms in Hebrew the Ads of the Apostles in Greek, wilh Pale' Horse Paulina! Davison on Prophecy Bishop Pearson on the Creed (Art. I and iJ) Jewell's Apology and the Book of Common Prayer. Van Dibmkk's Land.

Under the pa oral care of Bishop Nixon, twelve new churches and chapels and fourtee i ministers had been added to the previous ecclesiastical establishment The establishment of the co'lee is secured. The colonists nobly responded to the call for aid in this important work, and have seconded the example set before them by British philanthropy with a zeal and liberality that do them honour. One gentleman, with a munificence worthy the land from which he sprang, has alone endowed it with property to the amount of 150. per annum. Others have not been slow to render the assistance which the specified conditions demanded.

Colonial Paper. The Coast Guard. Considerable changes in the constitution of the Coast Guard have for some time been talked of, but the reports have been for the most part indefinite. Wo are now enabled to state, upon what we consider good authority, that that valuable body is about to be placed entirely under the Admiralty and that Captain Mingaye, who formerly commanded the Coast Blockade, will be at the head of the foree. By this alteration, a laruc body of useful seamen will always be available upon an emergency and it will probably be made a rule to draft a certain number of men from that particular service whenever ships are commissioned.

United Service Gazette. The Robbert of Bank-notes at Rogers ah Within the last few days, circumstances are understood to have transpired which leave no doubt that ere long the large amount of property stolen from the binking-h(iuseofMssrs. Rogers and Co. will be recovered, That the whole of the notes, to the amount of 40,000., are still in existence has been satisfactorily proved by the fact that few days since a 1. note, the number of which does not appear in the printed list published and circulate but which was stolen at the time, was forwarded to the banking-house, the party sending it requesting the receipt of it to be acknowledged in the newspapers, and staling that the whole of the not a would be restored upon the payment of the acknowledgment to be to II.

This request was accordingly complied with but, as to the compromise, that has not been entertained and, from a variety of circumstance which have transpired, no doubts are now entertained, but that tlie whole the stolen notes will be recovered, ami at the same time such evidence will be adduced us to lead to tlie conviction of the offender. It is well known that the whole of the stolen notes are at the present period secreted in tlie metropolis. A few days or weeks may, in all probability, elucidate this extraordinary and hitherto mysterious robbery. Mr Rowland Hill and the Post Ofpice. It said that Mr.

Row land Hill has been offered the situation of the Post-office Secretary for Ireland, in the room of Mr. Godby, who is about to be pensioned on his full salary (800. per annum) after 50 years' servitude. Thi is considered to be the first the part of the Government, to the introduction of Mr. Hill to the office in St.

Mar-tin's-le Grand. The celebrated Mr. Feargus O'Connor attended in person at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, on Toesday.at the sale of the Lowband Estate, Redmarley, Gloucestershire, and became the purchaser of Lot 1, containing 169 acres at 8100. The reserved price was 7100. only.

Is this purchasv for himself, or is it a move by the Chartists or the League to make votes Worcester Journal. Effect of Free Trade. The action of Sir Robert Peel's tariff is beginning to tell most disastrously on the glass trade. The plate-glass works, in Birmingham and elsewhere, are not extended in size, but are absolutely on the decline foreign competition in that article hai already turned the tables against the English manufacturer, and has compelled him to diminish the number of his workmen, and, as such, to lessen the extent of his trade. So much for the action of untaxed labour against labour heavily taxed.

Cast goods, of delicate workmanship, formerly made in Birmingham, are now retailed in that town of German manufacture. This may seem like carrying coals to Newcastle," but It Is nevertheless a fact. Whale Fishery. A most important project, under royal charter, has been set on foot through the energy of some of our leading merchants, namely, a company to revive the drooping British whale and seal fishery. Mr.

Thomas Baring, the member, is the governor; Mr. G. F. Young, the great shipowner, the deputy governor and among the directors are some of the first trader and capitalists in the city. As there are ample funds, and no lack of craft and crews, there is every prospect of our regaining a good portion of this branch of maritime enterprise gradually wrested from us by foreign countries.

The Chess Match between Mr. Stauntom and Mr. Hurwitz. After a struggle of nearly six weeks da-ration, this encounter has terminated in favour oi the English player, who has gained the whole of the games in which he gave no odds, and the majority of those wherein he gave the very large ones of a pawn and two moves. The Blind Traveller.

The celebrated blind traveller. Lieutenant Holman, returned to this country on Thursday evening, after an absence of upwards of six years, during which time he visited Portugal and Spain, Algeria, and all tlie places in the Mediterranean, penetrated Egypt and Syria, crossed the Desert to Jerusalem, and finally made an extensive tour through the least-frequented parts of the south-east of Europe, including Hungary, Transylvania, Servia, Bosnia, tee. As on all former occasions, this extraordinary man travelled perfectly alone. He has returned in perfect health and spirits. City of London Registration.

The Conservative interest in the city of London has been very materially strengthened by the recent triumphant success in the registration courts. The return of four Conservative members at the next general election is now placed almost beyond a doubt The Conservative agents have succeeded in striking off 1781 names from the register, whilst thei' liberal opponents have only expunged 766, leaving a gross majority of 1326 in favour of the Conservative party. The Liberal have, however, gained a majority of 75 vote in claims. Literary and Scientific Societies. A question of considerable importance to literary and scientific societies wa, on Saturday, mooted at the Greenwich Police Court.

The point raised is, Can a society let its premises for other than its own purposes, if the receipts are solely applied to objects of its own use. without rendering themselves liable to be charged with parochial rates It was ultimately agreed that the magistrate should issue a warrant, with the view of bringing the question, for decision, before the Court of Queen's Bench. Important to Sporting Gents." The question of liability to pay duty for those sporting vehicles called dog carts," although the original cost of them did not exceed 19 guineas, was determined by the commissioners of the assessed taxes at Kensington a few days back, on an appeal by a colonel in the Guards against the assessment. The commissioners decided in favour of the assessment, on the ground that the act only applied to persons In trade or business," using it for that purpose. We understand this decision is in accordance with that of the Court of Queen's Bench.

Singular Controversy. The gentlemen of the long robe are about to be engaged upon a subject exceedingly fertile in all that is required to bring forth legal talent. About six or seven years since, the Emperor of Russia sent out an order to India for five of the most elaborate Cashmere shawls that the Oriental looms are capable of producing, without limit to time or cost In May last, the package arrived, but through some error, five pairs were sent instead of five single shawls. In this dilemma, the consignee sold the five duplicate shawls to Mr. George Smith, of Ludgate-hill, with an understanding that tbey should not be copied.

The designs, however, appeared to have possessed charms too powerful for the shawl dealer to withstand the consequence is, that the patterns of the royal hijous, of three or four hundred pounds each, are now before the public in imitation manufacture at five to twelve pounds, with alterations which were considered sufficient by Mr. Smith, but which form the grounds of the suit at law. Novel Case. On Monday, one of the debtors in our gaol died, and the gaoler has been placed in an awkward position as to what he should do with the body, it being the opinion of some of the most eminent men here that, if the gaoler delivers up the body, he will be answerable for the debt Cases have been cited where the debt had to be collected before the body could be buried but whether in this case they think the poor fellow, having paid the the debt of nature, is to get off free without paying its creditors, is likely to furnish employment for clever men to decide the case. Norwich Advertiser.

Narrow Escape. An officer of the 3rd Buffs had a narrow escape from the violence of a drunken soldier, at Liverpool. The men were paraded on the will not lend a helping hand to destroy its efficiency. Thr Ft put map in thr World. The correspond ent of the Morning Chronicle describes the event of the fortnight" at New York the opening of a new shop for ladies bv Messrs.

Stewart, the Swan and Edgar," of that city. The building to whieh these respectable tradesmen have now transferred their good is more like a royal palace than a place for shopping its progress St embellishment for the last three months have been watched with general public interest It is a vast structure of marble, with a facade of fluted columns, tronung uu Broadway, of a very chaste and neat style of architecture, a third larger, perhaps, than the largest of the new cltib-hooses in London. The Interior rise into a dome, with a most imposing circular gallery and stair-ease leading to the upper warehouses the walls and ceilings are finely painted in fresco and no expense has been spared on its arrangement, decoration, and structure. It is, without doubt, the handsomest shop in the world. On the first day, the police officers at the door reported the visitors, for twelve successive hours, to be little over 1000 per hour I There are over 100 elerks employed in this vast shop and for them Mr.

Stewart has built in the rear of his marble bazaar a boarding-house, with baths and library, a separate room for each young man, and rooms for the teashing of languages and other parts of mercantile education. Thb Navw Planet. The present distance of the new planet, expressed in common measure, is about 3,200,000,000 English miles from the sun. Its distance from Uranus whose motion it disturbs is about 150,000,000 of miles. Its diameter Is estimated at 60,000 miles.

That of Uranus is about of Jupiter, 86,000 of Saturn, 79,000 of the Earth, 8,000. Its cubic bulk is to that of the Earth as 250 to 1. The new planet is the largest In our system except Jupiter and Saturn and since these two planets, as well as Uranus, are each attended by a train of satellites, it is extremely probable that the new planet will have a similar accompaniment. A Musical Match. Havdn challenged Mozart to compose a piece of music whieh the former could not play at sight.

Mozart accepted the task, and supper and champagne was to be the forfeit In five minutes a piece of music was produced, and handed to Haydn, with a bantering: boast from Mozart, There, sir, is a composition which you cannot play, and I can." Haydn sat down to the instrument, surprised at the simplicity of the music that was to puzzle him but when he had got half-way through it, he suddenly stopped, saying, How's this, Mozart how's this You've got my hands stretched out to the ends of the piano, and yet, there's a middle key to be touched Nobody can play such music as this." Mozart, laughing at Haydn' perplexity and anger, took the abandoned seat, and began. Running through the easy passages, be came to the difficulty whieh his friend found insuperable and, bobbing his head, struck the key with his long nose, and was at the end of the composition in a trice. Haydn, with whom such a feat was a physical impossibility, burst into a roar of laughter, and confessed that ature bad endowed Mozart with a capacity for music which be (Haydn) bad never before discovered and to which he could lay no claim. The forfeit was cheerfully paid. Golden Rules in Shooting.

Never take a shot from your neighbor although, should be be a bungler, be always prepared with a barrel to give the coup de grace. Never walk with the muzzle of your gun point ed except towards the ground or to the sky. Always unlock your weapon in crossing a ditch, or getting over a gate. After tiring one barrel, never fail to ram down the other, as the charge may have got loeae. Never load one barrel with the other cocked, or the ramrod down it.

Always unload your gun, or see it done yourself. Keep your powder and copper cap dry. Never pnt your hand or arm over the muzzle of a gun, or lean over it Never blow into the barrel of a gun, and always treat it a if it was loaded for no sooner does an accident occur than the first exclamation is, I had no idea it was loaded." Never take a loaded gun into a house. Be particularly careful where you keep your powder, for housemaids and children will poke their noses into cupboards and drawers with lighted candle. Whenever you come to a difficult pass, such as a large ditch, stiff fence, high gate, wall, or very thisk covert, take off your copper caps.

In the event of your rain-rod sticking fast in your gun, do not allow a clod to try to extract it with bis teeth, but, having removed the eap, force the ramrod by knocking it agtinst a tree. Te these I will add two maxims, the one from Hawker, the other from Daniel. The Col. thus writes Never suffer a gun at any time to be held in the direction of either man or beast." And the author of Field Sports" gives the following excellent advice: "In shooting with a stranger, who perhaps keep his gun cocked, and muzxle usually pointed to the left, plead for the riht hand station, and urge that you cannot hit a bird flying to the left with a gamekeeper take the right hand without ceremony." Sporting Mag. A Family op Mutes.

There is a singular family of mutes in Jean town, Locneurron. They are orphans, seven lads and two icirls, all deaf and dumb, and yet the most industrious people in the village. Strange to say, three of them have adopted a sea-faring life, and have a boat and nets, in which they sail by themselves in pursuit of herrings round the whole coast. During the day, tlie helmsman directs the others by signs, and at night he carries stones in his pocket which he throws at them one intimates a desire to stand by the halyards, and two to reef. Usb op 8tabch.

Starching of linen was brought into England in 1665, by Mrs. Dinghen Van Piaase, born in Flanders, who came over here at the invitation of some of the nobility, and professed herself a starcher for which purpose she opened a kind of seminary. Her price was 67. to teach ladies to starch, and 20. to teach them how to make it, that is, how to boil it to a right consistency.

Substitute for Cream in Coffbb. Beat the white of an egg to a froth. Put to it a small lump of butter, and turn the coffee to it gradually, so that it may not curdle. It is difficult to distinguish the taste from fresh cream. Irish Servant.

A gentleman indisposed and confined to his bed, sent his servant to see what hour it was by a sundial whieh was fastened to a past In his garden. The servant was an Irishman, and being at a loss how te find the time, carried tlie sundial to his master, saying, "Here, sir, now look at it yourself; it is a perfect mystery to me, all over." Defrauding thb Post-ofpicb. An Irish railway labourer, located somewhere in Lancashire, transmitted to his wife, residing in Kendal, a post-office order, and to evade the payment of a penny postage, hit upon the following expedient Having procured a newspaper, be placed the document inside and folded it up, and then placed upon it the following direction "Take care, Judy, who opens this paper, as there is a post-office order in it for ten shillings, and I don't want it staling by any one barring yourself. Misthess Judy O'Rouke, Kendal. To be left at the post office till I write again." Is it a Compliment A young lady, lately appeared at a Fancy Ball in the character of Gulnare.

The published notice of the characters, appends to this one, the quotation Extreme in love or bate, In good or 111, Th wont of crimes bad left her woman still." Condensed Intelligence. The Paris National state that Ruaain in in fn her protest against the succession of the children of me unite anu Liucness oi monrpensier to the throne of Spain. It is stated that the pope intends to appoint two additional bishops for Oceania, one of them a Frenchman, and the other an Irishman. The King of Prussia has conferred upon Miss Hersehell the large gold medal of merit, as a reward for her scientific works. The wrauiDK ouuu of me nussian urana uuchess.

who was recently married to the Prince Royal of Wurtemburg, is composed of 312 chests and five carriages, weighing altogether 691 cwt -Great havoc has been committed among the sheep flocks of Van Dieman's Land, by wild dogs. One farmer has lost 2,000 sheep, and another 7,000. The Universe says that 33,000 copies of the Scriptures have been sold by the colporteurs (hawkers) in France in the last three month. At the annual meeting of the Manchester Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, on Tuesday, the report which was read, stated, that previous to the present year, the a umber of copies of the Bible distributed in that district annually, amounted to from 5,000 to 12,000. whilst this year no leas a number than 96,000 have been disposed of, being equal to the number disposed of in the previous twelve years.

The Rev. Hugh towel), incumbent of Christ Church, Manchester, has been presented with the munificent sum of as a token of respect for his exertions in the cause of Protestant principles during the last 20 years. Captain Stanley is about to sail in command of an expedition to survey Torres Straits and the adjacent coasts of New Guinea and New Holland, where the many wrecks demonstrate the necessity for more complete and accurate charts. The last pension granted by Sir Robert Peel waa one of 25L per annum to John Lloyd, in consideration of the services rendered by bis ancestors to King Charles II. in his escape after the battle of Worcester.

Lord John Russell has recommended Mrs. William, widow of the bate Mr. Henry William, of Newport, (who was severely wounded while acting as a special constable at the memorable chartist irruption of 1839) for a grant of SOL from her Majesty's loyal bounty. Lord AahburUn has given his Somersetshire tenants the exclusive right to all the game on their respective forms. We hear that it is intended to erect a splendid mansion on the site of the existing remains of Fonthill Abbey, which are now in course of removal.

The new edifice is to be completed in six years from the present time. The account which has been published of an unsuccessful attempt te destroy the large telescope belonging to the Earl of Rosse by some fanatics who had gone over from Cheltenham to Armagh for that purpose, turns out to be a gross fabrication Among the many interesting discoveries at Herculaneum, is that of the tailor's thimble open at the end, as in the present day. A new re-publication society, for the works of the meat celebrated chemical writers, has just been formed in London, under the title of the Cavendish Society. of these important productions of the soil. That the loss of these crops must have a very serious effect on the supplies of food, no reflecting mind can for one moment doubt Not that we have the least apprehension of any want of food for we are daily more fully convinced that our observations on the crops' in our September report will prove correct, and we stated last year when the famine cry was raised from John O'Groat's house to the land' End, we again repeat, There is no real foundation for this alarm." The supplies regularly brought to market is the best test that can be offered as regards the correctness of our opinion.

It is very true the supplies have been immense from the harvest of 184C, so early in the year, and that a falling off in the home supply for a few weeks may naturally be looked for, os the late rains havepreventedthe farmer from getting his outdoor work in so forward a state as could be wished. We are too well acquainted with rural affairs, and our practical experience is of too long a standing to suppose these losses will not cause some distress. This distress, too, will principally fall on the lower classes, and should claim the timely attention of those who have the means of alleviating it It is a most providential thing that the labour market should be in such a state of activity. We have always found the greatest boon that could be conferred on the labour man is to give him fall employment, and at wages to correspond with the price of provisions and the other necessaries of life. Let this now instantly' be done throughout the length and breadth of the land, and the famine cry and the distress will gradually pass away and we shall, by the blessing of an all wise providence, peaceably and happily enjoy "such things as we have." Grass continues plentiful', and store cattle still do well in the pastures but all stock masters should remember to get their yards nnd houses ready for the reception of their cattle, as the season is fast approaching when good shelter, good food, and good attention are requisites that must not be neglected by the man who knows how to make a profit from farming, which is the object every intelligent farmer will keep in view.

Nov. 2, 1846. J. W. DEMORALIZING TnD CORRECTING INFLUENCES.

At the Berks Quarter Sessions, the week before last, the Rev. J. Field, the intelligent and zealous chaplain of Reading jail, presented a report to the magistrate on the state of the prisoners, and the practical conclusions to which the experience of the prison was calculated to lead. Reading Jail is known, on the Continent as well as in E- gland, as a model Institution in the best sense of the word. The Chaplain's Report is exceedingly valuable, and we shall give a summary, with extracts at length of the more important portions.

The Chaplain begins with a notice of the care that has been taken to make imprisonment a means of lasting amendment, by imparting a religious education at once active and judicious. He speaks highly of the conduct and character of all the subordinate officers of the prison, two thirds of whom are found every month, as, the Chaplain trusts, meet partakers of the Holy Communion." In the past year there l.ave been 657 committals, a decrease oi 29 from the previous year. Of had been previously in custody, 76 of whom had been imprisoned in the New Jail. But of these latter, 61 had been confined for less than three months, and only 10 for longer than that period, and the Chaplain justly contends, that however efficient the corrective discipline of the prison, it could not be expected to produce a permanent effect in so short a time. Of Ignorance as a cause of Chime.

Of 631 prisoners examined upon this point, 236 were ignorant of the alphabet, and 204 entirely unacquainted with the first principles of the Christian faith. "The greater nnmber had received some measure of instruction, yet so wretchedly defective had been the character of the for restraining directing in the practice of duty, it had been altogether inadequate." Tlie worth-lessness, in a moral point of liew, of a smattering of education has been repeatedly affirmed by the Judges at the Cornwall Assizes. Mr. Field insist very strongly on the necessity of securing a proper education in Workhouses, as he finds a large nnmber of the inmates of the prison who have had no instructions but such as Workhouse schools afforded. In this matter he had sad and convincing proof (hat great changes arc required.

Destructive Influence of the Union Work-house. Upon this point we must give Mr. Field's report at length Well may we congratulate the county and the kingdom that the present establishments, which are exclusively under your jurisdiction, have been subjected to a reform, which has converted them from schools of vice into real houses of correction but you must allow me to assert with confidence (for careful investigation has convinced me) that the place of those once demoralizing institutions is now supplied by some of those establishments, which, as they arc intended for the relief nf poverty, ought certainly to be preventive of crime. The revolting statements made to me by some prisoners resjiecting the vicious intercourse of the workhouse, to which they ascribed their misconduct, has induced me to make inquiries and to visit some of these scenes of demoralization andltbough I have not found in all cases that the particular assertions have been correct, yet I have learned and witnessed enough to convince me, that if no other source of moral corruption existed, the polluting converse allowed in oar workhouse is alone sufficient to fill the cells of our prison. Of many evils I mention one, and would respectfully ask, what plan could the most subtle adversary of all purity devise to ensure rapid contamination, which should be more suited to effect the cruel purpose, than that of associating with other females those notorious as having debased themselves to the lowest depths of prostitution, and others whose oft repeated crimes, if they would for a time avoid the prison, force them to the poor-house, because none will employ them, there to pass the time in filthy and defiling conversation, which would otherwise be spent in foul misdeeds, and to talk about and instruct others in the pei petration of vices, from the practice of which they are themselves for a time restrained My observation has convinced me that depraved and reprobate characters of this description live in a 6tate of constant excitement.

The proverb i still true, which describes them as like the troubled sea, when It cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt" The disquietude impurity of their mind must find vent in word if acts be forbidden if the present grati Bcation of their vile pasions be pre rented, they seek pleasure in recounting the past, and in tempting others to indulge the like. To accomplish this, what opportunity more favourable could be sought for, than that which is so culpably afforded, whilst the masters and matrons at our workhouse are compelled to place all the able-bodied paupers, from 16 years of age and upwards the innocent and the most vile, the virtuous and the most depraved in one common apartment, and in one promiscuous company I purposely speak of these officials a enforced, because I have found them alive to the evil, and lamenting that the law should permit, or the want of space within their buildings should compel them to pursue, a system so demoralizing and disgraceful and I am bound to add that in one or two instances, with the sanction of the authorities, they have made most praiseworthy efforts to avert consequences, so easily foreseen, but most difficult for them to prevent The consideration of circumstances such as those referred to, may prepare for the statement of a fact which might be otherwise amazing that, of the diminished number of criminals committed during the last year, not less than 68 hare been sentenced to imprisonment for offences in the workhouse." Railway Labourers. Upon this subject, also, we must quote the Report fully The lines of Railway now forming la the County, and the consequent influx of railway labourers, a large proportion of whom are not only most ignorant, bat men of dissolute and depraved habits, whose bad conduct has obliged them to forsake their been another cause of crime. Such an accession to our criminal population, tending to the decrease of offences elsewhere, must in proportion lengthen the calendar of this county. The number of committals from this class has not Indeed been very great, but the indirect evils produced by then are incalculable.

They are addicted to drunkenness, Sabbath-breaking, lewdness, and general debauchery vices which are most demoralizing to a neighborhood, because most infectious and many of the crimes committed by our native peasantry have been traced to their intercourse with these igtorant and most sensual men who sojourn amongst them. Hitherto but little has been done by way of instructing and thus restraining this vicious class, but 1 have felt pleasure in uniting recently with the parochial clergy of this town in the endeavour to obtain some provision for their spiritual wants, and I trust that ere long, suitable means will be supplied. For this purpose, the Railway Company have contributed 50, and additional subscriptions will be thankraily received." The other subjects upon which Mr. Field dwells in his able and most interesting report are Beershops which he regards as a source of a large proportion of crimes against the person, exciting to acts of violence, when the prosperous times, which relieve the working classes from the temptation of distress, supply the means of drunkenness and riot: Vagrancy; upon which he remarks, that the practice of sending out vagrants early on a Sunday morning who have been received into a Union Workhouse on Saturday night, and that sometimes without a morsel of food, explains the frequency of offences committed by vagrants on Sunday Offenders, of whom a large proportion are the offspring of vicious parents, a return to whom only supplies fresh inducements to crin e. The better fare of a prison over what such delinquents can obtain at heme, makes a prison rather a desirable place for robs punishment of CEUECHES "Hie English Churchman of this vreek annnnnces the consecration of the following new churches Christ Church, Heat on Morris, Stockport, Diocese of Chester a handsome structure in tlie early English style, with tower and spire 102 feet biffh, furnishing acromtnorla-lion for 1220, of nhicli 825 are free the only difference in the free seats being, that the others are provided with doors.

Wilbrahatn Egerlon, gave the site, 2002. to tlte building fund, and 10001. to the endowment. There wa a (frant also from the Manchester and Eecles Church bnilding society. St.

PauVs Church, Alnwick, Diocese of Durham a beautiful church vrilh open seats, and open roof, huilt and endowed at the sole expense of the Duke of Northumberland the cost, with the endowment and parsonage, being 13.000. Sf. Martin's Wilt, Diocese of Salisbury a small church, of the decorfltcl style of architecture, with open and open roof. Christ Church, West Fordington, Dioeec of Salisbury; nent rhnrrh, wilh open sras and roof, built in great neware aecorritnodate the troop quartered at Dor-rheti the site leing given by the Dnrhy of Cornwall. A new church was crtnmencd last week in L'eds, the gift ofr.

munificent erson who gives this ol.jeet, mid much more, if it shall lie required. Four other churches are to he commenced in Leeds very namely, one in ti Lei'lands, for which an unknown 1 enefaetor has girc.n 2,500., and 1 ,000. more r-W been raised second for the new parish of St. Snvioii fiir which sufficient funds are nearly raised a tiird in the district contiguous to Messrs. Marshall's mPl.

at the expense of the firm, who employ 2,000 people and a fnwlb for Little 77, Turrit Moral and Industrial Trahiing Scliool. Th firt stone of this building has recently been laid, by tlie Chnimvm of the Board of Guardians, in the presence of the Clergv. the parish officers and other inhabitants of Leeds, who went in procession on the occasion. Appropriate palms were sung, and provcr were offered up by Dr Hook. The intf nded nildin? is to he erected on a very eligible nrid elciatod spo of ground, six acres in extent, pur-d ased I the finardians for the purpose, of W.

Beckett, M.I., boinf part of the Red Hear Farm at throned which the spacious newly-formed slreet, Beckett -street, runs. The new House of Recovery and the Btt Cemetery, provided by the Town Council, Mider tl Bnrinl Grounds Act of 1842, are situate to the Fast of Beckett-lTrit, ard the Industrial Schools are to be on the wet side, Iwt nearer to the Cemetery than the of Recovery. Ti buildings, with the inclosed play-ground, will eover an area of 1a. 0k. and will stand midway between the northern and southern extremities of the School es'ate and the principal front, looking into Beckett -street, ill be 55 yards from the honndar abutting on tl a' street.

The remainder of the ground will be hi out a ornamental pleasure-grounds for the of the inmate. Tlie entire of the property will be inclosed bv a snlistantial stne wall on three sideband the side next to Beckett-street will have a handsome Iron pshsndin'r throughout the whole length, with entrance gn'es in the centre. The principal front of the school buildings will be 276 foet in extent, and the depth, from front to rear, 178 fert. Tlie iiiteiiorwill be constructed with a view to the classification of the inmates, the northern side being, assigned to the girls, and the southern section to the hoys. Th ough the centre there will he a large pile of buildinus which will separate the play-grounds of the two sexes, end will be appropriated for kitchens, dining-room, chapel.

See. the western portion thereof embracing the infmit's school-room, day-room, and dormitories. Tlie rear holdings on the west side will comprise wasb-honse, laundry, work rooms and receiving-rooms for boys and girl, over which will be fever wards for both sexes. Between the rear and front buildings, on the north and south sides, and separated from the dining-room and rliapelby the open plav-gronnds, there will be covered colonnades to enable tlie children to take out door exercise in stormv or wet weather. At the end of the colonnades on each side, and connected therewith, forming the extreme wings of the front bnilding, are the spacious day rooms, measuring 50 feet by 25 and over these will be the respective schoal-rooms, of the like dimensions.

The centre part of the front buildings will comprise the the bead master's apartments, the teacher's dining-room, entrance hall, and principal staircase nnd, on the eight and left of the centre ground flaor, will be the store rooms, bath-roo tis, with a epncibns corriilor, extending the whole length of tlie building, at the back thereof. On the first and second floors, there will be eight dormitories 50 feet by 25 feet each, and 14 feet high, adjoining to which will he apartments for the teachers, male and female, with bay windows so situated as to command a view of the entire of tlie respective rooms. Over the colonnades alreatlv spoken of, will be corridors from front to rear, to admit of access from the dormitories to the fever wards without the necessity for coming into contact with the open air. It may also be stated that the diniiig-hall and chapel will be accessible front all parts of the without tlie necessity of exposure to the weather. Tlie chapel and d'ning-hall will each he 45 feet by 80 feet the former will have a handsome open timbered roof, stained in imitation of oak, the latter will lie ahout 14 feet in height The staircase will l-c so constructed as to prevent the risk of accidents by children falling, there being no baluster or railing.

Numerous water-closets will be provided in connection with tlie school-rooms, day-rooms, dormitories, and playgrounds. The building will be lighted with gas, and supplied with water by the Leeds Water Works Com-panv, and, to guard against fires, plugs will be provided. The style of architecture adopted is Elizabethan, and from the designs exhibited on the ground during the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone, the front will present a liold and exterior, three stories high, the centre and wings having a considerable projection, at the angles of which will be eight octangular stone turrets with moulded canopies. The wings will have bay windows from the round to the roof, terminated with high pointed gables and in the centre part will he three large oriel windows. A terrace, 7 yards wide, will extend the entire length of the front of the huililinr.

In their instructions te architects, when advertising for deigns for the new School, the Board of Guardians made the following remarks, which were duly attended to As the object of a Moral and Industrial Training School is to separate at much as possible the children who may be admitted within its walls from all association with pauperism, it is desirable that the designs to be furnisLcd should, both in their external appearance and internal economy, be, as far as is consistent with the limited amount to he expended, calculated to banish from the mind? of the inmates all idea that the Institution partakes in any degree of the character of a Workhouse." The edifice will be built of brick, with stone dressings The land, with some compensation for tenant-right, cost 1 ,620., and it is boned that the building will be erected for 10,000. additional. The entire erection will be completely warmed and ventilated by Messrs. G. and J.

Had en, the eminent engineers, of Trowbridge, Wilts, whose principle of ventilation has been adopted with the gnalest success in various public institutions in Great Britain and Ireland. The whole will be executed from the designs of our townsmen, Messrs. Perkin and Backhouse, architect who arejuston the point of completing the New Gaol for this borough. Leeds Intelligencer. Political Fropiiecies.

Davcnant prophesied that England would be ruined by a debt of two millions Hume was quite certain that a national bankruptcy would occur if the debt roue to one hundred millions. There appears now lo be little solicitude as to effects of this harae'er when it not far from eight hundred millions Quantities and Prices on irhieh the Average is calculaied. as far as concerns the four Western Counties. WHBAT BARLEY OATS BEAKS qrs. Is.

d. 370 04 3 S7I 05 0 SlOljsS 4 1007101 3 qrs qr. 178 d. Cornwall 33331 10 23 9 Devon 50 1014 133 8 17i 23 1 0 0 8 510 45 1 1 Somerset. 38 0 39 7 1215 127 10 Dorset.

321 31038 1 Total for tlir whole kingdom 143,405 0) 101 98 fll 9,300 43 0 Seeds at the Corn Exchange, duiy paid. Turnip, White 8 a 10 Red and Green 7a 10 Cinque Foin 38 a 40 Rye Grass 33 a 38 Tares, New 3 8 3 9 Old 4 8 5 0 Clover, Red per cwt. Clover, White Poeign, Red White T-efoil Linseed, per qr. .40 a 5o .44 a .44 a 5 .45 4 5" .45 5n POTATO MARKET. Southwark Watbrsidb, Monday.

The supply to lis market continues to be very limited, yt the sales are the high price much decrease the consuinp. tiou. The lown market are also tolerably wel supplied, which assists to depress this irket. The pric4 mh ranging as foUows: York Regents 120s HHK Shnw-i 120a, Lincolnshire Regents 120s, 130s, Shaws 120s, Knt and Esse ReenU 140 180, Shawg, 130, Kidney UOs. Two cargoes of French potatoes have arrived, but no sale have been effected at present.

Borough Hop Market, Monday. New Pocfcets. New Bags. I 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 ii Parnham 6 0 Kent 4 East Kent 4 4 Sussex SH Yearlings 3 3 0 15 0 8 8 0 4 8 3 3 Kent Sussex Yearlings. Old Hops 0 0 4 ,0 SM1THFIELD.

From our own districts, the arrivals of beast wore verv extensivp. and at umihil imnm.J jk. The supply being more than equal to the wants of the waicu, mo urei iniue was in a very nepressed state, at a decline in the quotation of 2d per 81b, and a clearance was not effected. By the quantities of Sib. sinking the olfal.

I. a. d. I Beasts, inferior .3 10 a 3 I Calves, small 4 ilu a second quality. Oxen, large beat Scot, 4a Large Hgs Small Porkers .3 2a 3 4 .3 8 a 3 10 .4 0 a 4 3 .3 8 a 4 0 .4 8 a 4 10 .10 0 a 19 0 coarse 3 4 4 Sheep, inferior .4 Sat 4 2nd quality .4 Oat best coarse wool leH 10 a 3 9 do.

Southdown .5 2 a 3 1 Pigs, qr. old each Lira Cuttle at Market on Beasts 3819 -Sheep 20,020 Calves 123 Pigs 430. Oils Imperial Measure Linseed, per cwt. 7 0 0 ch. 0 16 1 1 0 46 0 Palm, d.p.

per cwt. 1 18 2 8 d.p. per cwt.l 13 II Seal, d.p. per tun. .29 0 3." 0 Sperm, dilto 88 0 0 South Sea 0 30 Tallow and Candles.

Town Tallow, per cwt. .59 8 Fat by ditto (per 8 ll 2 10) Russia yellow Can.l. cwLSl 8 Melted Stun 38 0 Grave Good Dregs Mould Candles. Store ditto Bough 24 Inferior ditto. Imports from Petersburg, 11,000 casks.

Prices of Leather at Lcadtnhall, per lb. s. d. s. d.

ft, d. s. d. Calf. 30 a 40 lbs.

.0 11 a I 4 do. 40 a 50 lbs. I 1 a 1 0 do. 50 a 00 lbs 1 Sal 7 English Horse Ilides.O 10 a I 2 Spanish do. 8i! British Butts 3 a 1 10 Dressing Hides.

.0 9) a 1 01 Crop, 30 a 40 .0 10 a 1 0 do. 40 a 90 11 a 1 3 do. 50 a 80 lbs. 1 210 Hides (per lb). Market Hides, 56 04 lb .0 3 Market Hl'les, 00 104 3 0 Ditto 104 112 lb 0 0 Calfskins (each).

4s (Id Os Hsrse Hides (each) I3 II Ditto 04 79 lb 34 Ditto 73 80 lb 3 3J Ditto 80 88 lb 4 Diito 88 96 lb 5 Current Prices of Metals. fit bar, Walea par ton i 15 0 to 9 I. 00 0 11 ISO bow London 0 0 I lo Nail Rods 0 Hoop (Staf.) .11 Sheet. 0 Bar 0 Oto 10 5 0 to 11 0 0 to 13 0 0 to 1 1 111 0 0 10 0 12 I) 0 0 00 0 0 10 0 10 0 00 to i 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 II 18 0 19 6 1 'i 19 0 2 1) 11 0 17 0 8 13 9 0 10 10 0 00 0 0 (I 0 4 0 I Scotch pig, Clyde Russian, cca. 3 10 0 to 3 0 0 9 to 0 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 0 to 13 0 0 0 to 13 0 0 0 lo 11 0 0 a to in Ml 0 Gourleii 0 Archangel 0 Swedish, for arrival 0 St bbl- Fatso 0 Kegs per too 14 CorvKXt Tile Tough cake 0 Best selected 0 Ordinary sheets bottoms TTU -Com.

Mock cwt 0 bars 0 Refined a 0 0 to 14 0 to 37 9 0 to 88 0 0 to 91 0 0 to 0 0 to 9 9 to 9trait 4 IS 0 to Bancs 3 00 to 5 Tik Plat a IC hex. 1 9 0 to I IX 1 15 0 to 1 Co. IC 9 0 to 1 IX 1 19 0 to 1 Sheet np in unto 19 Pig, 0 0 0 to 20 common Spanish, in bd. American Ituc -(Sheet) ftuicasiLvam. Barman Mstai, 18 3 0 to 18 0 0 0 to IS 8 0 0 to 9 .18 15 9 to 19 0 0 0 to 28 per lb.

0 0 0 0 to 9 PRINTED AN PUBLISHED By GEORGE WILKINSON KNEEBONE, Printer and Publisher, Of No. 5, Ferris-town, in the parish of Kenwyn, in 9 County of Cornwall, at the Printing Office, near Bridge, Lemon Street, in the said parish of Kenwyn. TnuaaBAV Evening, the 5th November, lH4ti. London Agents, Messrs. Nswton and War-' Square, Newgate-Street, Messrs.

Babkbb and WiT' 33, Fleet-htreet, Mr. Gaaette Office, eery-Lane, and Mr. Deacon Coffee-House, iU.ro Ofiooit. where be j8 rcuunsrlv riled. BAXfcWAVS.

Trent Vallbt. he contractors on the Trent Valley line have the tempting bonus of 10,000. a month held out to them by the directors, for every month saved in the time contracted for the completion of the railway, which is therefore expected to be opened in January next, instead of May. New Line on thb Bristol and Exeter. The ground for a line, branching out of the Bristol and Exeter In the neighborhood of Uphill, and running tfcence near the several towns and villages of Bleadon, Loxton, Com-ton'Bishop, Axbridge, and Easton, through the city of Wells; and from thence continuing its course to the eastward, and forming a junction with the Somerset, Wilts, and Dorset lines, in the neighbourhood of Brulon, is new under survey.

It is proposed to apply to Parliament early in the ensuing session, for an act to enable the company to carry their plans into effect Creditor and Ex eter. This line Is rapidly approaching completion. The entire Hue will be completed, and delivered up ready for working, it is estimated, at a cost of about 13,000. a mile. Improved Railwat Carriages.

Some carriage upon a new principle have recently been run on the Belgian line. These vehicles, though forming but one body, contain a diligence in the centre, and two char-a-bancs, and two covered waggons at the ends. They run upon four pair of wheels, independent themselves of the body of the carriages, so that no shock nor uneasy motion Is felt. All in which these carriages are stated to be deficient is, that they cannot be employed but with difficulty where the curves are strong and frequent Second Class Carriages. It is stated that the directors of several Railway companies contemplate imitating the French, by providing for the comforts of second class travellers, by lining, padding, and supplying with cushioned windows and lamps the second elaas carriages.

Globe. Velocity of Trains. A machine for registering the velocity of railway trains has lately been invented. The object of it is to furnish the railway companies with a record of the work done by each train, and the measure in which it has been done. By these means they would be often enabled, in case of any accident, to assign correctly the nature and cause of the accident and so prevent its recurrence.

The machine is closed up under the seat of a railway carriage, and when placed there, it marks on a strip of paper the speed of the train, the time of its passing every half mile, and the length of every stoppage at a station. Railroad Machinery and Travelling. A considerable Improvement has just been effected in the application of a propelling power in carriages on railways, by an officer at Vienna. The invention consists in making the advance of a whole train quite independent of the adhesion of the locomotive's wheels to the rail on which it moves, and by conveying the propelling power of the engine to the axles of all the carriage thus making their advance depend on their own adhesion. Each carriage becomes thus a locomotive.

The whole train is thus enabled to ascend any rise that may occur above the level of the railway which the engine, if alone, would be able to ascend. The same officer ha also invented a break, by means of which a train may be conveyed down that they saw five little men like apes, the tallest of whom was not more than six inches bign go into the field and engage in wrestling. The contest was long, and for some time very equally maintained but at length one of these small men succeeded in throwing, a fair back throw, each of the other four. The victor was then described as jumping on the back of the pony, dancing in the most grotesque manner, and singing very obscene songs; whilst the others, howling with wrath and pain, so terrified the poor animal that, in wild affright, it galloped furiously around the field for upwards of an hour the little ape-like man in no respect diminishing his zeal, but continuing to dance most furiously, until the poor beast fell panting, exhausted, beside the hedge. Suah was the tale believed by a respectable, and, as education went in those days, an educated farmer The pony was kept in the stable at night the door of the stable being fastened with a green twig of the scow" (elder tree) to keep out all unnatural intruders the result of which treatment was, a might have been expected, the gradual abatement of a disease due entirely to cold and exposure." A Word fob the Press.

Every week brings us three or four requests to advertise some new society, some e-nbryo publication, or some fresh invention gratuitously. It will, however, be time enough to comply with such demands when th Government dispenses with the heavy taxes levied upon us when the tailor supplies us with clothes, the shoemaker with shoes, and the butcher, baker, and grocer, with food for nothing when also the landlord declines to take any rent, and men work without receiving any wages. It ha heen mmarknrt that the press is continually advocating the removal of uurueus irom ocners, out never says anything of the peculiarly large amount of taxation and expense which affects itself we trust, therefore that we shall not be deemed unreasonable in standing up for that fair remuneration for labour and the risk of capital which is accorded to every other occupation. Hereford Journal. Price op Newspapers.

The Sherborne Journal, mu Kiivanee in price, says We have felt it necessary to add one-halfpenny to the price it will, in future, be 5d. the copy, which is the price of our contemporaries, the Salisbury Journal, Dorset Chronicle, and Poole Herald. Some may exclaim, Why, this is the age for cheap newspapers On this subject we crave to be heard. Experiment have been made to reduce the price of newspapers but how ham th rc.rin.-H, k. effected By very materially diminishing the value of "ucie.

ine puuiic tor a time may be pleased with the cheapness, but they will soon cease to be amused with their bargain and it has already been discovered that cheap newspapers make very poor proprietors. The i I attempted to assail The Times, by offering If at half price but, as Car as its mechanical and literary branches are concerned has turned out an utter failure and what would have been the consequence if it had succeeded in pulling the daily journal down to its own level Why, the public must have been deprived of the advantage of the expresses, by which foreign events are so speedily conveyed throughout all the corners of this country. France would anticipate our Indian news, and we should of the greatest achievements of which, as Englishmen, we can boast Our periodi.